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Comment by jedberg

The trimmed mean and Winsorized mean are both super useful in monitoring and metrics systems. In most cases you don't actually want the median but you also don't want the extreme outliers to throw everything off with a mean.

Both methods give you better metrics for comparing periodically, like day over day or week over week.

parent jedberg 3 years ago

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